gillian reid

Hello, I’m Gillian.

I’m a therapist living in Edinburgh and my modality is psychodynamic therapy, based on Freudian psychoanalysis, My work, therefore, is focused on Freudian theory where one basic, central, premise of Freud’s was his view of the mind. Freud’s belief intimated that some of what we experience on a day-to-day basis e.g. emotions, beliefs and impulses; takes place in the unconscious and is not available to the conscious mind. He also used the concept of repression to demonstrate that although an individual may not remember a (traumatic) event happening to them, the memory is locked away in the unconscious. The memory, though, stays inthe unconsciousand can reappear in consciousness under certain circumstances, (e.g. times of high stress), causing problems for us even in the unconscious.

My belief, (likeFreud’s) is that the unconscious mindgoverns behaviour to a much greater degree than people suspect and my therapy involvesdeep exploration of clients’ past to access, and understand, the root cause oftheir problems.